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New comment by laidoffamazon in "More Americans are breaking into the upper middle class"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:41:44 +0000

I went to a state school, worked at Amazon and didn’t get a 2300 on my SAT - I definitively am lower caste but the caste/class divergence isn’t well understood in culture I think.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "More Americans Are Breaking into the Upper Middle Class"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:32:37 +0000

As someone that thinks of myself as a low-caste, middle class American it's interesting seeing all of these people listed in the article making less than me

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 04:33:35 +0000

>btw 99% of MIT people are no different then the rest they just worked hard or paid hefty amounts

I don't think that's true. I didn't get into any elite schools unlike almost all of them.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:56:50 +0000

I genuinely think this is because the elites like the MIT dropouts that started this company think the rest of us observers are stupid.

They have a billboard with the copy "Compliance before you tell your parents you dropped out of MIT"

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:19:47 +0000

The problem may not be "intellectually interesting" to them at all, but building B2B SaaS does appeal to them from a lifestyle/prestige/pedigree perspective and will probably get them an exit to become a Venture investor even if they fail.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:00:47 +0000

Major red flag with this should have been that their expensive marketing predicated heavily on them being MIT dropouts instead of any expertise in the space

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:37:07 +0000

As someone trying to monitor the situation using Twitter the last few weeks it’s awful and it used to not be!

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:47:17 +0000

I don't think he has an obligation to do anything. I just think he's a hack and your friendship is blinding you to this fact.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:54 +0000

I frequently follow Patrick's tweets. He hasn't said a single goddamn thing about this corrupt administration but keeps talking about Gavin Newsome's vaccine policy that was in effect for 2 months in 2021

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Speed up responses with fast mode"

laidoffamazon — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:33:53 +0000

Personally, I’d prefer a slow mode that’s a ton cheaper for a lot of things.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 03:29:59 +0000

This is genuinely pathetic, Patrick. You want to say it so bad but can’t!

No notes on the fraudsters pardoned by this current admin of course.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:26:30 +0000

All terms are made up by humans

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:22:20 +0000

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cryptoracist

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:21:53 +0000

> To the extent that Bits about Money has an editorial line on that controversy, it is this: if you fish in a pond known to have 50% blue fish, and pull out nine fish, you will appear to be a savant-like catcher of blue fish, and people claiming that it is unlikely you have identified a blue fish will swiftly be made to look like fools. But the interesting bit of the observation is, almost entirely, the base rate of the pond. And I think journalism and civil society should do some genuine soul-searching on how we knew—knew—the state of that pond, but didn’t consider it particularly important or newsworthy until someone started fishing on camera.

Does Patrick want to address the fact that this happened during school break and that Nick Shirley didn't prove much of anything?

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Fraud investigation is believing your lying eyes"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:17:50 +0000

I don't recall Brett Favre's scam in MS on HN

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

laidoffamazon — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:45:42 +0000

I’m aghast but numb to this now.

The biggest question for me now is how the usual defenders of this lawless administration will try to defend this or both sides it.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "When square pixels aren't square"

laidoffamazon — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:21:44 +0000

I'm reminded of how 720p Plasma TVs had input resolutions of 1024x768 - the pixels themselves were rectangular

New comment by laidoffamazon in "How uv got so fast"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:04:43 +0000

Interestingly I didn’t catch this, I liked it for not looking LLM written!

New comment by laidoffamazon in "High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects"

laidoffamazon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:50:24 +0000

This is how it works 99% of the time

This is the standard for getting into an elite school. Just getting good grades and generic "activities" hasn't cut it for twenty years or more.

They live in a completely different world from the rest of us and they hate us for it.

New comment by laidoffamazon in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

laidoffamazon — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:04:16 +0000

It's not a conspiracy theory. It's basically a bribe to Chamath, Don Jr. and Sacks.